Starting from the presumption that changes in labor regimes in the process of “economic postmodernization” (Hardt 1999) affected fundamental protocols and explanatory frames people use to make sense of the world in which they live and to position themselves within that world, the panel seeks to elucidate ways in which individuals make sense of their working selves and which means and strategies they use to define themselves and negotiate work processes and relationships in the working environment. We are particularly interested in the ways particular trajectories and labor histories and utilized in these pocesess of definiton and negotiation, both in the Western and in the post-soclalist Europe. The panel discusses a range of aspects which define the relationship between labor and the self in the neoliberal present, including gender, memory, migration, and popular culture.